Lookout Mountain Tenn

March 20^th 1864

 

Dear Mother

                    I seat my self this beautiful Sabath morning to answer your kind and welcome letter whitch i received in last evenings mail and i was hapy to hear ove your enjoying good health for my health it is good and i am getting a long as well as i could expect they health ove the boys in the company is good only one case in the hospital that is Sargent Weaver but he is getting a discharge i believe he has the consumption he is a very nice young man i hope he may get home and recover a gain the boys all thinks a heap of him you want to know if Sirwell is back he is now with us and our other old rascal has gone home on a furlow / i only hope he may never come back to the regt i suppose you have saw James Penington ove our company sense he went home he is a veteran and the only one out ove our company they is several ove the regiments in our Division has come from home that was home on their veteran furlow they are now good for three years a gain the 79^th P.V left for home a week or so a go as veterans and they was 65 of their men wouldent reinlist and they was put in our regt 12 of them is in our company we are stil on the Mountain we expected to leave this some time a go but we are stil here yet they was a man out ove company C of our regt fell over the rocks of the point of this mountain a fiew days a go and was killed instantly you speak ove lidea going to school now i will leave this to your self if you need her at home you had better keep her to help you and if you choose you can get her in with / some study girl in leechburgh and leave her board their but i would be very carefull who you get her in with and if you need her at home i would say to keep her at home the first term and perhaps you can send her the seckond term as that will be after harvest and most of the work will be over now i leave it to your self to deside use your own judgement a bout it i received a letter from walter a fiew days since and was glad to hear ove him doing so well the report is in camp to day that our Division mooved to a place called Grey Ville they expected a battle on to day but wheather they had it or not i did not hear from what i can understand our men intends to drive the rebs from a gap in the mountain it is not a gap in lookout mountain but it / is a gap in pigeon mountain i only hope they will succeed well mother i have written all i can think ove i will try and do better the next time now i will close hoping to hear from you soon write soon and all the perticulars

                                                                                               

Abram Kipp

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